City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex }
to Wit

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and Chaple
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the
Fifth day of August in the Fifthyear of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the
Faith and so forth before Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the paid
City and Liberty, On View of the Body of Mary Maclean< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon
the Oath of James Blyth< no role > , Joseph Hubbard< no role > , Robert Clark< no role > , Robert Tarlton< no role > , Anthony
Parquot< no role > , Philip Burkinyoung< no role > , Joseph Rudge< no role > , James Preston< no role > , Benjamin Roberts< no role > , Thomas Brown< no role >
John Powell< no role > Daniel Wakeling< no role > and John Mackney< no role > , good and law full Men of the said Liberty duly
chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King
when how, and by what Means the said Mary Maclean came to her Death, do upon
their Oathsay, That the said Mary Maclean not being of sound Mind Memory and understanding
but lunatich and distracted, on the Fourth day of August in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, on End of a certain piece of small bord,
unto an Iron Hook, fastened into the Wainscott in a Closet within the Lodging Room or
Apartment of her the said Mary Maclean in the dwelling House of Thomas Bucknell< no role >
a Barker situate and being in little Poultney Street, in the [..] Parish Liberty and County,
and the other End thereof about her own Neck did fix, tyne, and fasten, and therewith did then
and there hang, suffocate, and strangle herself; of which said Hanging, suffocation, and Strangling
she the said Mary Maclean then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their
Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Mary Maclean, not being of sound Mind, Memory,
and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid,
did Kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said James
Blyth< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows,
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place
first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > . [mark] Coroner .

Jas. Blyth [mark] Foreman